2014 marks the centenary of the 1914 Deutsche Werkbund Exhibition in Cologne, the controversial show, which came to define the two steam of the Modern Movement: the rationalist and the Expressionist. Bruno Taut’s prismatic dome, known came to showcase the achievement of German glass industry and became the prototype of the Expressionist Movement;

The Glass Pavilion by Bruno Taut

Walter Gropius and Adolf Meyer who would came to found the Bauhaus just five years later, created a model of a rationalist factory; and Henri van de Velde designed his memorable theater. The exhibit opened on May 15th and was shut down on August 8th with the outbreak of the War.